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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment : a review on new search models
Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
setting. I review new developments in search theory and discuss the influence of minimum wages on wages and employment under … heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537096
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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment : a review on new search models
Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
setting. I review new developments in search theory and discuss the influence of minimum wages on wages and employment under … heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592293
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Revisiting the matching function
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
these two features combined generate an equilibrium comovement between matches on the one hand and unemployment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755946
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The formation of experts' expectations on labour markets : do they run with the pack?
Schanne, Norbert - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
unemployment in the short run. In this data we can discriminate between close and less-close peers to overcome the reflection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641636
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The formation of experts' expectations on labour markets : do they run with the pack?
Schanne, Norbert - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
unemployment in the short run. In this data we can discriminate between close and less-close peers to overcome the reflection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592351
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Job search via social networks : An analysis of monetary and non-monetary returns for low-skilled unemployed
Krug, Gerhard; Rebien, Martina - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"Using a search theoretical model, we analyse the effects of the information flow via social networks (friends, relatives and other personal contacts) by comparing monetary and non-monetary outcomes in obtaining jobs via networks versus formal methods. Propensity-score matching on survey data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364667
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Assortative matching through signals
Poeschel, Friedrich - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"The matching of likes is a frequently observed phenomenon. However, for such assortative matching to arise in a search model, often implausibly strong conditions are required. This paper shows that, once signals are introduced, a search model can generate even perfect assortative matching under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641640
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Work incentives? Ex-post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions : evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537118
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Assortative matching through signals
Poeschel, Friedrich - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"The matching of likes is a frequently observed phenomenon. However, for such assortative matching to arise in a search model, often implausibly strong conditions are required. This paper shows that, once signals are introduced, a search model can generate even perfect assortative matching under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592297
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Work incentives? Ex-post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions : evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592330